When Ecuador announced
- while studying Julian Assange's political-asylum situation - that it has giving
diplomatic shelter to the WikiLeaks founder at it's Embassy in London, UK and Swedish mainstream were left in a kind of panic-state of "emotional" or creative
numbness -- this judging from respective articles on both sides of the North
Sea.

Is this a sign of awareness that their
anti-WikiLeaks media-war will be soon finish in anti-climax collapse? Or
because they were not be able at the end to publish front-pages portraying - as
announced - a Julian Assange "taken prisoner in London by Swedish police
and transported to Sweden in time for the Midsummer's day celebration"? That arrogant-chauvinist,
triumphalist fashion (typical for Bonnier's journalists) – is found in a Dagens
Nyheter article published after the Supreme Court extradition verdict.

On the 23th of June it was about
Guardian insisting and insisting on that Julian Assange is actually charged or
“might be charged” “or will be charged” for “rape” in Sweden. Those notions are
so exceedingly fact-wrong, and so reiterated, that "pathetic" has
come to replace "falsehood" in describing Guardian's stance against
Assange.

In all the said issues the
Guardian's article demonstrates either poor fact-knowledge on the subject --
the author has not checked facts to sustain the referred statements, or simply
the Guardian is again only exhibiting new evidence of its hostile anti-Assange stance .

I

Sweden’s treatment of refugees and deserters

First, about
"harbouring American draft dodgers and deserters": Dagens Nyheter
(DN) published 29 June 2012 the article "U.S. Military in Stockholm to get deserters home (to
stand trial)", which states
explicitly that those that are NOT SWEDISH CITIZENS can theoretically be rendered
["lämnas ut"] to the U.S.. Note that the article does not formulate
"could be rendered", but "can be rendering to".

The
episodes of "harbouring dodges and deserters", meaning when vapen-vägrare arrived in Sweden, it occurred in only a segment of Swede's history, and that was during
the Vietnam War about 40 years ago -- when Sweden’s PM was Olof Palme.
Sweden is nowadays, to the highest degree, an aligned country with NATO. Does
really this journalist imply that Sweden would harbour refugees combatants
deserting a war in which Sweden is participating under U.S. command, like in Afghanistan for example?

Looking
back into history in the record of Sweden with regard to political extraditions
or political deportations, we find unfortunate, nasty illustrations. We might
find Russians forced to deportation to the former Soviet Union during the
Stalin era. We might find political refugees deported with Swedish police
escort to their countries of origin to stand torture and death. And we might
find asylum seekers delivered in secrecy at Stockholm airports to the US
intelligence services for being transported to torture elsewhere that in the
USA.

What
I mean is that Sweden has been capable - for political reasons of own
national interest (I do not accuse Swedes of bad or "diabolic"
intentions) to crucify their own juridical principles when it comes the moment
of international political transactions that are judged critical. The history
of Finland is a living proof of that. And the reference to the deals with
Germany during the 40's, which I recently took in my article Sweden, NATO and Assange, should also be
considered in the context of Sweden's realpolitik when it has come to
decide matters of political extradition or deportation in the context of
international governmental pressure.

Galbraight describes Sweden
as “a neutral country with a long tradition of harbouring American draft
dodgers and deserters“. What? Sweden 2012 "neutral"?

In
fact, "Neutrality" is a political stance Sweden has officially
and openly abandoned since several years ago. Many would even argue Sweden was
never neutral. This is one of the serious flaws in the article, and which also
constitutes a premise (false premise) in the further analysis of the author. Is
not only that Swedish troops even form part of the NATO expedition forces in
Afghanistan. As I reported previously (The NATO factor. Extradition process initiated in Sweden
against the WikiLeaks founder is to the uppermost extent POLITICAL), Sweden has even taken the role of political proxy in the
advocating for stronger commitments towards NATO in countries of Europe.

It
would have been enough for the author to check the article "Europe should contribute more militarily" published on behalf on NATO in leading
papaer SvD, by the Swedish Minister of Defence. There the Defence Minister states, among other,"As NATO-partner
country, Sweden demonstrated in Libya being more inter-operative and capable
than many NATO countries"

The truth Guardian
do not know, or do not believe, or do not want to say

The facts:
Regarding the open extradition requests from the USA since 2000, Sweden has
granted such extradition in the TOTAL OF CASES in which the prisoner was in
Swedish territory. This is based in statistics according to Sweden's Justice
Ministry.

The Guardian's article
also stated: “For much of the continent's history, coup or revolution
was the usual path for political change. New rulers preserved their future exit
options by allowing safe passage into exile for any ousted leader who made it
to a brotherly South American embassy.”

Guardian cannot be more wrong. Thousands
of political refugees forced to leave countries in Latin America, for instance
after military takeovers instigated or supported by the USA, have been received
in European countries. There were for instance more political refugees from
Pinochet’s Chile in Europe and North America, than they were in South America
countries. Were does the Guardian take its statistic from to sustain their Anti-Assange
hysteria?

At this stage,
when Assange’s lawyers or supporters have corrected this smear attempts so many times described from time to time in Guardian articles, there is NO excuse
for such publicist, journalistic or ethical, “flaws” from the Guardian.

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